Sentences with phrase «hole in the heart muscle»

In order of prevalence, the major heart problems were pulmonic stenosis (= narrowed vein channel), patent (open) ductus arteriosus, aortic stenosis (= narrowed artery channel) and ventricular septal defect (hole in the heart muscle that separates its two lower chambers).

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«The combination of microbubbles chipping away outside and inside the clot is like poking holes in the clot and turning it into Swiss cheese allowing blood to reach the heart muscle,» says Porter.

F is about the failures of the heart muscle while in A, for «aperture», a woman, Anna, finds a picnic table and — in a plot worthy of Henry James's psychological fiction — discovers her name graffitied into it; she digs into the letters, creating a hole with a creepy revelation.